Articles Tagged with ''Beijing''

Minsheng Contemporary Art Museum
Renovation, Restoration, Adaptation

Minsheng Contemporary Art Museum

Full Metal Jacket: An abandoned electronics factory is converted into a sprawling space for contemporary art.
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Clifford A. Pearson
February 1, 2016
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At 985 feet long, an abandoned Panasonic television factory in Beijing offered tantalizing potential as a cultural space—and huge challenges.


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Yanweizhou Park, China
Water and Resilience

Continuing Education: Turenscape Restores an Urban Wetland

Befriending the Floods: A Chinese landscape architect restores the ecology of an urban wetland and creates an innovative, ever-changing park.
Michael Cockram
July 16, 2015
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As the principal of China's largest landscape architecture firm and head of Peking University's architecture and landscape architecture department, Kongjian Yu has a spacious corner office in a sleek office building in Beijing's Haidian district.


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CCTV Headquarters

Too Big To Fail?: Long awaited and much debated, the enormous headquarters for CCTV finally opens, already a symbol of the new Beijing. But what does it actually say about architecture and China today?
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Clifford A. Pearson
November 15, 2012
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Promising to “kill the skyscraper,” Rem Koolhaas and his colleagues at Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) grabbed international attention in 2002 when they won the competition to design a huge headquarters in Beijing for China Central Television (CCTV).


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